I love a hot take as much as any man alive ... but ... covert CIA sponsorship of art had the same long run effect of covert use of academics & NGOs as cover. It sowed distrust of America & its institutions.
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Nope, it's definitely not incompatible. I saw my reply as a reinforcing your point. The original tweet seemed to think the CIA had simply invented giving government support to art, like an international NEA. If that's all they did no one would have minded much.
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If they did it overtly the Communists at the 'international NEA' would have used it to further Communism, rather than subvert Communism.
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